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Aerial medical evacuation of health workers with suspected Ebola virus disease in Guinea Conakry-interest of a negative pressure isolation pod-a case series
We report 4 cases of Health Workers (HW) suspected of having contracted Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), transported from the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) in N’Zerekore, Guinea to the Treatment Centre for Carers run by the medical corps of the French army...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5346232/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28284181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-017-0121-x |
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author | Dindart, Jean-Michel Peyrouset, Olivier Palich, Romain Bing, Abdoul Kojan, Richard Barbe, Solenne Harouna, Souley Blackwell, Nikki |
author_facet | Dindart, Jean-Michel Peyrouset, Olivier Palich, Romain Bing, Abdoul Kojan, Richard Barbe, Solenne Harouna, Souley Blackwell, Nikki |
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description | We report 4 cases of Health Workers (HW) suspected of having contracted Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), transported from the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) in N’Zerekore, Guinea to the Treatment Centre for Carers run by the medical corps of the French army in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, which was established on 17 January 2015 and closed on 7 July 2015. In total more than 500 HWs have died from EVD since the epidemic began. This mortality has had significant effects on the ability of local services to respond appropriately to the disaster. The HWs were transported by air in the “Human Stretcher Transit Isolator-Total Containment (Oxford) Limited” (HSTI-TCOL) negative pressure isolation pod. Medical evacuation of patients with suspected, potentially fatal, infectious diseases is feasible with the use of a light isolator for patients without critical dysfunctions. |
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spelling | pubmed-53462322017-03-14 Aerial medical evacuation of health workers with suspected Ebola virus disease in Guinea Conakry-interest of a negative pressure isolation pod-a case series Dindart, Jean-Michel Peyrouset, Olivier Palich, Romain Bing, Abdoul Kojan, Richard Barbe, Solenne Harouna, Souley Blackwell, Nikki BMC Emerg Med Correspondence We report 4 cases of Health Workers (HW) suspected of having contracted Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), transported from the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) in N’Zerekore, Guinea to the Treatment Centre for Carers run by the medical corps of the French army in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, which was established on 17 January 2015 and closed on 7 July 2015. In total more than 500 HWs have died from EVD since the epidemic began. This mortality has had significant effects on the ability of local services to respond appropriately to the disaster. The HWs were transported by air in the “Human Stretcher Transit Isolator-Total Containment (Oxford) Limited” (HSTI-TCOL) negative pressure isolation pod. Medical evacuation of patients with suspected, potentially fatal, infectious diseases is feasible with the use of a light isolator for patients without critical dysfunctions. BioMed Central 2017-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5346232/ /pubmed/28284181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-017-0121-x Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Correspondence Dindart, Jean-Michel Peyrouset, Olivier Palich, Romain Bing, Abdoul Kojan, Richard Barbe, Solenne Harouna, Souley Blackwell, Nikki Aerial medical evacuation of health workers with suspected Ebola virus disease in Guinea Conakry-interest of a negative pressure isolation pod-a case series |
title | Aerial medical evacuation of health workers with suspected Ebola virus disease in Guinea Conakry-interest of a negative pressure isolation pod-a case series |
title_full | Aerial medical evacuation of health workers with suspected Ebola virus disease in Guinea Conakry-interest of a negative pressure isolation pod-a case series |
title_fullStr | Aerial medical evacuation of health workers with suspected Ebola virus disease in Guinea Conakry-interest of a negative pressure isolation pod-a case series |
title_full_unstemmed | Aerial medical evacuation of health workers with suspected Ebola virus disease in Guinea Conakry-interest of a negative pressure isolation pod-a case series |
title_short | Aerial medical evacuation of health workers with suspected Ebola virus disease in Guinea Conakry-interest of a negative pressure isolation pod-a case series |
title_sort | aerial medical evacuation of health workers with suspected ebola virus disease in guinea conakry-interest of a negative pressure isolation pod-a case series |
topic | Correspondence |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5346232/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28284181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-017-0121-x |
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